Eugenicists, or pressured? Or both?
Lately the organization that has taken up the top spot on my "dead to me" AND "on notice" boards both at once has been having high profile fundraisers. I am writing, of course, of Autism Speaks, who claims to speak for me and 1.5 million other people without asking us a damn thing.
Autism speaks supposedly raises money for testing treatments (aka the quackery) and for genetic testing. The kind that gets people aborted. This is eugenics if you feel autism is a condition, it is genocide if you consider autism to be your culture/ethnicity/whatever. As far as I'm concerned they're doing the latter, but thinking they're doing the former.
So. Celebrity names. Autism Diva has a list in the entry "The night of too much hyperbole" or something similar (sorry Diva, I'm fried from writing letters to people on that list and networks and stuff. You deserve a better link and I can't do that right now). Stephen Colbert, Carlos Mencia, and Jon Stewart are the ones I remember.
Let's think here for a moment. Jon Stewart is Jewish. Jon Stewart knows all about the Halocaust and eugenics/genocide for the purpose of bettering the world, or he should. Yet he is participating in fundraising for this genetics project that anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would result in pressured selective abortion. Wait a minute! Doesn't this wiping out all of one kind of people sound familiar? I think a guy named Adolf was into that...
Speaking of abortion, Stephen Colbert...the over the top right wing pundit. Speaks out against abortion and just about everything else. Yet he is also participating in an event that, should the goals be reached, would result in millions of abortions. Hypocrite much? And I am not EVEN going there with how....ah...well, his AQ is probably up near mine, unless he's REALLY one hell of an actor, in which case he should go into politics.
And then there's Carlos Mencia. He's Hispanic, if the name didn't give it away. Don't Mexicans get a lot of shit in this country? Oh yeah. They do. If you consider autism to be a culture/ethnicity--he's a racist. Passing it on down the line, Mr. Mencia? That just makes you an asshole and a deet deedee. If Mr Mencia reads that he'll know what I mean. I will also be really surprised.
That's Comedy Central. I'll be looking into their ties with NBC at a later date, if they exist. Then there's their OWN entertainer, Jay Leno! He's doing a ridiculously expensive event for AutismWeeps too! Conveniently, it's impossible to contact anyone but Keith Olberman, Tucker Carlson, Rita Cosby, and Joe Scarborough from the NBC webpage. If anyone wants to go make a stink, I'm with you in spirit.
So. All these entertainers, one with definate ties to NBC, Comedy Central I have no idea, but NBC is damned influential. It makes me wonder:
a) Are these people aware of the aims of the group?
b)Are these people aware of how STUPID it is to say eugenic research is helping autistics?
c) Have they noticed that not a single autistic is on their board?
d) Are they allowed to question this without getting fired?
e) How much coersion WAS involved? Puppy dog eyes, or big fat bonuses?
f) So how much of the autismweeps money actually goes to helping autistic people like they say?
g) How much goes into "fixing" the broken grandchild?
h) How many illegalities ARE hiding there?
Gotta admit, it's fishy. It isn't possible that every entertainer in the New York area is eugenicist, is it?
Just some musing, since I got the yelling out of my system (including screaming at the Daily Show my roommate was watching that the guy on screen was a f***ing hypocritical eugenicist genocidal bastard. I am MEAN when pissed).
Anyone up for protesting, letter writing, anything? I know someone who knows how to pull publicity stunts...I can't do that from Montana, but I can help other people do it.
Autism speaks supposedly raises money for testing treatments (aka the quackery) and for genetic testing. The kind that gets people aborted. This is eugenics if you feel autism is a condition, it is genocide if you consider autism to be your culture/ethnicity/whatever. As far as I'm concerned they're doing the latter, but thinking they're doing the former.
So. Celebrity names. Autism Diva has a list in the entry "The night of too much hyperbole" or something similar (sorry Diva, I'm fried from writing letters to people on that list and networks and stuff. You deserve a better link and I can't do that right now). Stephen Colbert, Carlos Mencia, and Jon Stewart are the ones I remember.
Let's think here for a moment. Jon Stewart is Jewish. Jon Stewart knows all about the Halocaust and eugenics/genocide for the purpose of bettering the world, or he should. Yet he is participating in fundraising for this genetics project that anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would result in pressured selective abortion. Wait a minute! Doesn't this wiping out all of one kind of people sound familiar? I think a guy named Adolf was into that...
Speaking of abortion, Stephen Colbert...the over the top right wing pundit. Speaks out against abortion and just about everything else. Yet he is also participating in an event that, should the goals be reached, would result in millions of abortions. Hypocrite much? And I am not EVEN going there with how....ah...well, his AQ is probably up near mine, unless he's REALLY one hell of an actor, in which case he should go into politics.
And then there's Carlos Mencia. He's Hispanic, if the name didn't give it away. Don't Mexicans get a lot of shit in this country? Oh yeah. They do. If you consider autism to be a culture/ethnicity--he's a racist. Passing it on down the line, Mr. Mencia? That just makes you an asshole and a deet deedee. If Mr Mencia reads that he'll know what I mean. I will also be really surprised.
That's Comedy Central. I'll be looking into their ties with NBC at a later date, if they exist. Then there's their OWN entertainer, Jay Leno! He's doing a ridiculously expensive event for AutismWeeps too! Conveniently, it's impossible to contact anyone but Keith Olberman, Tucker Carlson, Rita Cosby, and Joe Scarborough from the NBC webpage. If anyone wants to go make a stink, I'm with you in spirit.
So. All these entertainers, one with definate ties to NBC, Comedy Central I have no idea, but NBC is damned influential. It makes me wonder:
a) Are these people aware of the aims of the group?
b)Are these people aware of how STUPID it is to say eugenic research is helping autistics?
c) Have they noticed that not a single autistic is on their board?
d) Are they allowed to question this without getting fired?
e) How much coersion WAS involved? Puppy dog eyes, or big fat bonuses?
f) So how much of the autismweeps money actually goes to helping autistic people like they say?
g) How much goes into "fixing" the broken grandchild?
h) How many illegalities ARE hiding there?
Gotta admit, it's fishy. It isn't possible that every entertainer in the New York area is eugenicist, is it?
Just some musing, since I got the yelling out of my system (including screaming at the Daily Show my roommate was watching that the guy on screen was a f***ing hypocritical eugenicist genocidal bastard. I am MEAN when pissed).
Anyone up for protesting, letter writing, anything? I know someone who knows how to pull publicity stunts...I can't do that from Montana, but I can help other people do it.
posted by Kassiane at 11:46 PM
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I'm up for some international protests. Let me know how someone from the UK can help and I'll do it.
Night of Overblown Hyperbole
:-) People are stupid, Kassiane. They might think they are helping all these little kids...who need help...
Comedy Central is just trying to help, as Autism Diva would say.
We need to find a way -- a way that will get past the people who read their letters, meaning we need to do some thinking on exactly what that way is -- to let them know the aims of this organization.
To them, it's probably something their publicists found, a safe charity to support, they've probably got all the standard prejudices about autism, and they've never been exposed to our side of the story. How many people have been exposed to our side?
We need to find out the exact reasons that each one of them have gotten involved in this. And then we need to find a way to make some serious contact with them in terms of getting our ideas across -- in a way that they'll believe and listen to.
Um, Stephen Colbert is parodying right wingers. He is that good an actor.
/just sayin
I gave up on Stewart a few years ago because he was always saying: "r_tarded this; r_tard that." Back when I used to watch him it was like he couldn't go a show w/o saying it.
So anyway, when he hosted the Oscars, there was a skit with Ben Stiller in a skin-tight outfit that really made no sense -- it was at the start of the show. Stewart's line was something about Stiller being in "a unitard". I figured the writers had to put that skit in there so that Stewart could get an approximation of that word out of his system ... so as to help avoid a slip-up by his actually saying it at some point during the ceremony.
Yes, Stephen Colbert is not really a reactionary, right-wing bloviator. He just plays one on TV.
The description of Colbert on wikipedia makes him sound like he could be on the autism spectrum, politics or no politics.
The WAY Colbert plays the part of the right wing reactionary screams spectrum to me.
And his old Even Stephen or whatever with that other guy. And the totally RANDOM things he says.
Oh. And being in his 40s and still doing backflips. That ain't normal, but it's good sensory integration (I didn't count this in the autistic traits I noticed but it's supportive evidence, so to speak). I pegged him first time I saw his show.
You do realize Colbert is a fictional character, right?
A recent article in New York Magazine discusses his dilemma when he is booked for an event - having to decide whether to go as Colbert the character, or Colbert-himself.
Attributing his character's random diatribes and right wing politics to being on the autism spectrum sort of sounds like an insult to autistic people.
*patiently*
I realize Colbert-the-pundit is fictional.
However, underneath there is a real Stephen Colbert. One who is into Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, RPGs, and other banners of geekdom.
One who can come UP with this stuff. And yeah, autistic people are funny. There are right wing autistics. There are left wing autistics. Either is capable of making fun of the other by being totally over the top. That's a way a lot of us do the BEST making-people-laugh stuff.
I find his random rants hysterical. They are a bit from left field, but they're funny. And I am neither the first nor the last to think he may be more than a bit spectrum.
It's not because of his character's politics. It's because of how the person behind them delivers them.
On a unicycle.
You may also want to consider that there are people (like me) who compltely understand your views and disagree with them.
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